[Matthew K. Gold (he/him)]

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From: Michael Eberle Sinatra <michael.eberle.sinatra@umontreal.ca>
Date: Mon, Dec 5, 2022 at 9:05 PM
Subject: [DHSI] Registration for the Sinclair-CRIHN event is now open!
To: institute@lists.uvic.ca <institute@lists.uvic.ca>, Humanist <
humanist@dhhumanist.org>, digital.humanities@mcgill.ca <
digital.humanities@mcgill.ca>

[Apologies for cross-posting; please circulate widely]

— Registration is now open for this event honouring Stéfan Sinclair! —

Michael Sinatra, CRIHN director, invites you to the second annual Stéfan
Sinclair-CRIHN lecture on Friday 9 December 2022 at the Faculty of Arts at
McGill University (Arts 120) with Dean Lisa Shapiro (Faculty of Arts,
McGill University) and Dean Frédéric Bouchard (Faculté des Arts et des
Sciences de l’Université de Montréal).

Named in honour of Stéfan Sinclair, one of the founders of CRIHN in 2013,
this second annual conference will feature a keynote delivered by Claire
Battershill, assistant professor cross-appointed in the Faculty of
Information and the Department of English at the University of Toronto, and
will be followed by a round-table with four doctoral students who will
present their own research projects.

The event will take place on the campus of McGill University and will be
broadcast live and recorded. (Registration is required for the webinar zoom
link — see below for the URL.) The event will be in English.

PROGRAM :

– 1.30pm: Welcome by Michael Sinatra, CRIHN director
– 1.35pm: Welcome by Dean Lisa Shapiro, Faculty of Arts, McGill University
– 1.40pm: Welcome by Dean Frédéric Bouchard, Faculté des arts et des
sciences de l’Université de Montréal
– 1.45pm: Second annual Stéfan Sinclair-CRIHN lecture by Claire Battershill
(U Toronto) « Lighting the Windows of the Past: Feminist Historiography,
Data Visualization, and Digital Archival Practice »
– 2.45pm: Coffee break
– 3pm-4.30pm: Graduate students Round-table with Arun Jacob (U Toronto —
winner of the First Stéfan Sinclair Memorial Scholarship), Lisa Teichmann
(McGill U), Parham Aledavood (U de Montréal), and Klara Du Plessis
(Concordia U).
– 4.30pm: Closing remarks by Marcello Vitali-Rosati, CRIHN Associate
director.

Abstract of Claire Battershill’s lecture “Lighting the Windows of the Past:
Feminist Historiography, Data Visualization, and Digital Archival Practice”:

Digital archives, and particularly critical digital archives, have
proliferated with astonishing rapidity in the past decade and have
correspondingly evoked debates in Digital Humanities about both
digitization methods and about the affordances and limits of archival
imaginaries and structures. How do we write history by making digital
archives? How do digital archives narrativize and visualize the past? What
are the tacit assumptions of the digital archive as a genre? In Data
Feminism, D’Ignazio and Klein propose a series of core principles for
feminist engagements with data visualization: rethink binaries; embrace
pluralism; examine power; consider context; legitimize embodiment and
affect; and make labour visible. These recommendations offer a direct
challenge to conventional visualization and digitization methods which
focus often on what’s present in digital archives or corpora rather than
what is absent from them. Rethinking digital archival methods in order to
place a feminist emphasis on gaps, silences, and erasures requires a
rethinking, too, of the aims of these archives in the first place; less to
digitize extensive material traces of the past and more to offer
always-partial glimpses of the past that openly acknowledge their own
partiality. In this paper, I will offer some examples of and proposals for
experiments in data visualization, metadata, and digital archival practice
that offer possibilities for writing and representing the past with a
feminist aesthetic and ethos.

This event is organized with the support of the Faculty of Arts at McGill
University, la Faculté des arts et des sciences de l’Université de
Montréal, the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at McGill
University, and McGill DH.

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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Conférence Stéfan
Sinclair-CRIHN. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email
about joining the webinar.
(https://umontreal.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_VWvo_IeKSpeahOd5aemEhQ)
umontreal.zoom.us
(https://umontreal.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_VWvo_IeKSpeahOd5aemEhQ)
(https://umontreal.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_VWvo_IeKSpeahOd5aemEhQ)

Michael E. Sinatra (https://www.michaelsinatra.org) | Professeur titulaire
et directeur
Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur les humanités numériques (CRIHN
(http://crihn.org))
Responsable du Groupe de Recherche sur les Éditions critiques en contexte
Numérique (GREN (https://gren.openum.ca))
Responsable de l’option doctorale en Humanités numériques
(https://llm.umontreal.ca/programmes-cours/humanites-numeriques/doctorat-en-litterature-option-humanites-numeriques/),
du microprogramme
(https://admission.umontreal.ca/programmes/microprogramme-de-2e-cycle-en-humanites-numeriques/)
et
de la mineure
(https://llm.umontreal.ca/programmes-cours/humanites-numeriques/mineure-en-humanites-numeriques/)
en
HN, Université de Montréal

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